The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1958

Miss Isabel (by Michael Plant and Denis Webb) is Shirley Booth, but even
that does not help much. With scarcely a sign of talent, the authors of
Miss Isabel have tackled a stage subject that might make genius
stumble. Their aging, white-haired heroine becomes mentally ill and
imagines that she is a young girl and that her embittered, put-upon
old-maid daughter is her mother. One act later, Miss Isobel imagines
that she is a tiny child who keeps caterpillars in a shoe box.

The theater, with its blunt visual effects, is less suited to so
ticklish a story than fiction would be,...